Chapter 948 - 857: No Ghosts, Only Mortals
Grey Hou True Form had already appeared in the world.
It was seething with rage, emanating a sky-reaching presence that made the Path-Scenic Land violently shake.
If it weren’t for the Path-Scenic Land encapsulating this area, distancing it from the real world, its current might alone would have been sufficient to shatter ten thousand li of land.
“Yin Xu’an, I’m going to eat you!”
Seeing Yin Xu’an trying to turn and leave, Grey Hou grew even more furious and charged directly from the Daoist path, arriving in an instant!
“Are you not going to make your move, you damn dog?”
Yin Xu’an looked at Big Black Dog, uttering his words with resentment.
In terms of strength, he was still only at the level of Encounter with Ghosts and hadn’t yet passed that stage, but he still wasn’t afraid of Grey Hou—even though the latter had reached “Encounter with Immortals,” he still had confidence in his ability to behead it.
However, he had always only been interested in comparing swords and lacked enthusiasm for battling or fighting outside of the Sword Dao.
Seeing Grey Hou’s terrifying fangs already striking towards him, its massive mouth open, spewing the overwhelming power of Dao Rules, Yin Xu’an had no choice but to turn around and transform into the sword to meet his enemy once more.
But at that moment,
“Woof, woof, woof woof woof!”
“Owoooooooo woof woof!”
A series of thunderous barking, mixed with the roars of some ancient beast, suddenly erupted.
These barks were deafening almost to the point of shattering one’s soul.
The Grey Hou, furiously charging forward, suddenly trembled as if something had terrified its very soul, becoming dazed, stopping, and instinctively raising its eyes to look ahead.
There in the distance sat a mountainous Big Black Dog, which had appeared unnoticed. It sat proudly with a contempt-filled noble head and eyes gleaming with a soul-shattering light!
“Ancestor of Rhinoceros…”
Grey Hou muttered to itself subconsciously; at that moment, it seemed to be entranced. Inside its body, a Primordial Spirit left its form.
It was at that moment that Big Black Dog turned to Dugu Yuqing and said,
“Make your move!”
Dugu Yuqing didn’t wait any longer, and the Phoenix Sky Brush in his hand fiercely swept across.
A wave of golden red flames instantly swept through.
“No…!”
The Primordial Spirit of the Grey Hou suddenly woke up, terror flashing through its eyes, seeing the golden flame approaching, it cried out in absolute horror,
“Phoenix True Fire?!”
“How is this possible… How could there possibly be a Phoenix in this world?!”
The golden red flames scorched its Primordial Spirit.
“Ah…”
The agonized screams of Grey Hou resounded instantly.
Phoenix True Fire could burn everything in the world.
Including Primordial Spirits!
Once ignited, the Grey Hou’s Primordial Spirit was unable to escape and was rapidly devoured.
“No… I don’t want to die…”
“You dead dog… impersonating the founder of my clan… I’m going to kill you…”
Grey Hou went completely mad, it struggled to lift its hooves, attempting to trample Big Black Dog.
It utterly loathed Big Black Dog to the bone.
For such a powerful Immortal Seer, it was supposed to be an invincible existence in this realm, yet it was about to die such a suffocating, ridiculous death!
It hadn’t even had the chance to demonstrate its true strength.
But, its hooves ultimately didn’t come down, as the golden red flames completely devoured its Primordial Spirit.
Finally, Grey Hou’s Primordial Spirit only managed to cry out in agony before dissolving into nothing!
Burned by the Phoenix True Fire, completely dead.
Boom!
At that moment, it was as if the tide had receded, the surrounding foggy world suddenly disappeared rapidly!
With Grey Hou’s death, its Path-Scenic Land also departed from the real world.
The sunlight of the Wu Huang Realm instantly shone through, and the eyes of everyone present saw the originally ravaged land.
The arrival of Path-Scenic Land just now seemed like nothing but a dream!
However, on the land ahead lay unmistakably, a massive corpse.
It was as high as a small mountain!
That was Grey Hou’s corpse, although the Primordial Spirit was dead, the body was unscathed.
“Woof… struck rich, struck rich, haven’t eaten for many years… so nostalgic!”
Big Black Dog reverted to its normal size, looking at Grey Hou, its dog eyes full of craving.
While Wu Dade beside him, was looking at Big Black Dog in utter shock, saying:
“Dead Dog, how did you manage that?”
Big Black Dog had actually managed to kill Grey Hou, the counter-heavenly powerhouse.
Even Yin Xu’an looked at Big Black with a rather solemn expression.
Upon hearing this, Big Black Dog raised its head proudly and said,
“Human Pet, I don’t mind telling you!”
“The ancestor of Grey Hou was just a dish in the emperor’s meal back then. I’ve even eaten its ancestors, how could I not deal with it?”
That was truly boastful.
Wu Dade was quite skeptical and said,
“Dead Dog, don’t I know you? Always bragging!”
Big Black Dog became angry and bared its teeth, saying,
“Human Pet, itching for a beating?”
Upon hearing this, Wu Dade instinctively tightened his buttocks and dared not speak.
At this moment, Yin Xu’an seemed contemplative, with a trace of solemnity on his face.
He felt… Big Black Dog’s words could very well be true.
The bark that Big Black Dog had just emitted contained the supreme ancestral roar techniques of the Grey Hou clan!
That was why it had managed to intimidate Grey Hou.
After all, the more powerful the species, the more stringent the hierarchy of bloodlines becomes. The oppression from the supreme ancestral roar could even command the life and death of its descendants!
And the techniques of such creatures as Grey Hou often reside within their true bones in the bloodlines. This dog might have truly eaten the flesh of Grey Hou’s ancestor!
“What’s the background of this damn dog… It feels… incomprehensible…”
He couldn’t help murmuring!
At this moment, Dugu Yuqing was looking towards Sword Master Evil Corpse and shouted,
“Corpse of the Strayed Path, isn’t it time to awaken from evil?!”
He held the Phoenix Sky Brush, with the true intent of Sword Dao reappearing!
With the pathway of Sword Dao, he summoned the Sword Master Evil Corpse.
And the Sword Master Evil Corpse was still kneeling on the ground at this moment.
However, there was a struggle in his hollow eyes!
“In Path-Scenic Land, I witnessed with my own eyes, that person turned into fierce ghosts…”
The inner demon that had been caused to him back then was indeed too great to dispel.
Unlike Sound Venerate and Martial Honor, when he embarked on that path and initially saw the dark path, he saw that person had become the king in the darkness… he simply didn’t believe it and even struck out with a sword towards that dark path.
However, when he broke through his realm, he saw a terrifying scene in Path-Scenic Land, representing the path of cultivation.
That person… had truly turned into a ghost!
The more fearless a person is, the more iron-firm their Dao heart; once the Dao heart collapses, once fear starts, that kind of fear… also becomes harder to dispel than for ordinary people!
“I want to open Path-Scenic Land again, I want to see for myself!”
Sword Venerable shouted, then suddenly closed his eyes.
Space transformed, and a dimly real world appeared.
Sword Venerable’s Path-Scenic Land had descended, enveloping this place.
A haze spread, turning this land boundary similar to ruins!
Cracks everywhere, broken walls, the desolate and barren landscape in the mist, the path of Dao Rules broken and cut off, powerless to extend deeper…
Back then, Sword Venerable’s Dao heart had collapsed, so Path-Scenic Land broke on the same day.
At this moment, looking at the desolate and withering scene in Path-Scenic Land, Sword Venerable’s hollow eye sockets seemed also to freeze for a moment, then he looked deeper.
Even though Path-Scenic Land was broken, he believed that that ghost… should still be there!
Unsure what he thought, his body began to tremble slightly.
But then he clenched his fist.
“I must see…”
“Whether it’s real… or fake!”
He followed the broken and fearless path of Sword Dao, proceeding straight to the place where he had seen the ghost in the past.
At that place, there was nothing.
“There is no ghost… only a word…”
Sword Venerable froze in place.
Dugu Yuqing and others watched intently, vaguely seeing, on Sword Venerable’s path of Sword Dao, someone had written a dark word in black blood.
“Fan.”
…
Good night.